The above image was captured from Donegal by Noel Keating Photography — **The above image was captured from Donegal by** **Noel Keating Photography**

The above image shows the moment the Northern lights was captured by local man Noel Keating Photography last night from Donegal, Ireland. The Bz dipped southwards last night with a uptick in solar weather allowing a fain display to be visible

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Aurora borealis captured last night just as the Bz went as far south was it was going to for the entire night. Captured at 23:05pm and faintly visible to the naked eye as a diffused glow on the horizon, still nice to see these colors again as we begin a new Solar cycle were these should start to become more common with the increase of Solar activity.

Captured > Donegal, Ireland
5th January 2021 @ 23:05pm

A deffuse aurora was also visible from Rosses point county Sligo also last night just before midnight

Diffuse aurora is caused by precipitation from the plasma sheet without additional acceleration in the low-altitude magnetosphere. Unlike discrete or Alfvenic aurora, diffuse aurora is a region of glow without large-scale structures

The image below is called a stackplot or magnetometer. A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment. Some magnetometers measure the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a particular location. The below image is what Donegal Weather Channel uses when aurora hunting and below in the image you can see where the BZ fell sharply southward which tell me that the Aurora may become visible shortly across Ireland even if the KP number is at 1 or 2. You can see this between 11pm and 12pm last night that there was a enhanced chance of seen the aurora across Ulster and north Connacht.

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Minor (G1-class) geomagnetic storms are possible today, Jan. 6th, when a CME is expected to strike Earth's magnetic field. The storm cloud left the sun on Jan. 2nd. The fact that it has taken at least 4 days to reach Earth marks the CME as a slow-mover; the longer it takes to arrive, the weaker its impact will be.

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